A heaven on earth

This is a bookstore somewhere in Argentina that used to be an opera house. Pretty cool.

Everyman's Guide to Globalisation

Courtesy of Overheard in New York:

Drunk black girl: I get mad cheap shit in Chinatown. You can get shit for like ten cents. China knows what's up.

Drunk black guy: Shit. But they are communist and shit.

Drunk black girl: Yeah, but the U.S. is a bunch of idiots. They're like, "We are gonna make shit fuckin' expensive," and China is like, "FUUUCK YOUUU. We are gonna sell shit for like one dollar, and all you stupid white bitches gonna buy it up. Fuuuck youuu."

[Sorry for contravening the convention of don't cut and paste, but this was easier]

A bit weird!?

The train service in Melbourne has a slightly discomforting new ad campaign: Don't Hold Other Back.

It's all about how the trains are going to become more efficient because of government support. However, it is also about how you-the public transport user-can help the trains run better.
Some of the older ads are quite good: Kitsch/crappy posters with model trains and aliens attacking or probing or beaming them up.

Just watch the TV ad on the website-I'm sure you'll agree it is weird!

So much to say!

Firstly, I was walking along Bourke Street yesterday when I say a Japanese man playing "acountry brues". Nuf said!


Secondly, I am completely obsessed with Gordon Ramsay's The F Word. He has bought himself Turkeys to cook for Christmas. So what? He has named them after celebrity TV chefs: Nigella (who turns out to be a male turkey), Delia (also a man), Ainsley, Jamie and Gary (aka Rhodes, and the Turkey gets an infected foot). Moreover, how would you like to eat squirrel? Times food critic, Giles Coren, finds out how to cook a grey squirrel-which are running rampant in Britain-and it turns out people love it.

Thirdly, RIP Steve Irwin. Crickey, he went out in good circumstances: stung through the heart by a stingray!

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

Well, I was doing a little random surfing relating to Aldous Huxley, and supposedly he is pictured on the front of the Beatles' Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album. I can't find him, but I did find this cool site where you can click on the images to find out who the person is. There are some random people on the cover.

Actually, I just found Huxley... looks strange, however: he is the one above Marlon Brando with a red shirt.

This is a bit of a coincidence, which is slightly freaky, as a certain other blogger told me she was doing a puzzle of the cover. Twilight Zone man.........

Tight Arse Italian Exams

Now, this is what I call an exam:

Calenzano, (20km far from Firenze, Italy),This is crazy. In Italy once you reach
graduation as an architect you're not a "real" architect, you have to attend
this crazy examination called "Esame di Stato" (State Exam). "Esame di Stato"
happens twice a year and the graduate architects who attend it have 8 hours
(usually from 9:30am to 5:30pm) to design what is asked to them: a public
library, for example, or a school, or a residential settlement for 428 people,
or the upgrading of a public square, and so on. The crazy thing is that people
have to esign and draw by hand.

Biting Social Comment in a Blog... No!!?!

Two posts in two days... incredible but true.

Check out this biting social comment from BibliOdyssey. Who would have thought that a blog could contain biting social commentary?

Bamboo Bridge

Now, this bamboo bridge is truly amazing. The Flickr info says it is an art installation somewhere in Los Angeles. Cool.